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Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Amin Syam sworn in as new governor of S. Sulawesi
Amin Syam sworn in as new governor of S. SulawesiJupriadi, The Jakarta Post, Makassar, South Sulawesi As in Southeast Sulawesi, the swearing-in of Amin Syam as new governor of South Sulawesi has been in limbo amid the ongoing police investigation into bribery allegations during the gubernatorial...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Mandala raises salary by 100%
Mandala raises salary by 100% JAKARTA: Local airline Mandala Airlines has increased the basic salary of its 1,345 employees by between 60 percent and 100 percent in a bid to improve their welfare.The move was also in anticipation of the hikes in prices of basic commodities and the cost of living,...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Heritage runs deep in Sita's veins
Heritage runs deep in Sita's veinsSri Wahyuni, The Jakarta Post, Yogyakarta For Laretna T. Adishakti, her very persona and heritage activities are one and the same, an integral whole.Employed as a lecturer in Gadjah Mada University (UGM)'s School of Architecture, Laretna's interest in heritage...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Students, workers to continue protests
Students, workers to continue protests Students, workers and employers vowed on Monday to continue their street rallies to force the government to make radical changes to economic policies aimed at bailing the country out of its multidimensional crisis.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Case studies of privatization: A backlash
Case studies of privatization: A backlashThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta One of the strongest arguments in favor of water privatization is the widespread inability of public utilities in the developing world to provide clean water.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Hollywood lost $640m to Asian pirates in 2002
Hollywood lost $640m to Asian pirates in 2002 Reuters Bangkok Hollywood lost a record $640 million in 2002 to Asian criminal syndicates using cutting-edge technology to produce and export illegal copies of blockbuster films, a U.S. industry representative said on Monday.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Investigation into Sulawesi bribery allegations to go forward
Investigation into Sulawesi bribery allegations to go forwardThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta Despite recent objections from councillors, the government prosecutor's office in Kendari, capital of Southeast Sulawesi, said it would go ahead with its plan to investigate the alleged bribery in the recent...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Joggers protest closure of Thamrin-Sudirman roads
Joggers protest closure of Thamrin-Sudirman roadsDamar Harsanto and Muninggar Sri Saraswati The Jakarta Post JakartaThose who used to jog and exercise along Jakarta's main arteries of Jl. Thamrin and Jl.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Joggers protest Thamrin closure
Joggers protest Thamrin closureDamar Harsanto and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Jakartans who used to jog and exercise along the capital's main arteries Jl. M.H. Thamrin and Jl. Jend.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Residents protest road damage in Tangerang
Residents protest road damage in TangerangMulta Fidrus, The Jakarta Post, Tangerang Thousands of residents from the districts of Balaraja, Kresek and Kronjo in Tangerang, Banten province, blocked the main road connecting the three districts on Monday to demand the regency administration repair the...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Stock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on Jan. 20, 2003
Stock prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange (in rupiah) on Jan. 20, 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------- Name Close Change Volume ------------------------------------------------------------- Abdi Bangsa Tbk 275 0 0 Ades Alfindo Tbk 600 0 5,000 Adindo Foresta 50 0 0...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
1,000 women demand independence
1,000 women demand independence BANDA ACEH, Aceh: More than 1,000 Acehnese women staged a peaceful demonstration in the city on Monday, demanding the government grant full independence to the country's westernmost province.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
JP/4/scene
JP/4/sceneTeam formed to discuss antiterrorism bills JAKARTA: The House of Representatives (DPR) on Monday formed a special committee to deliberate the much-awaited antiterrorism bills.The establishment of the special committee took place two months after the bills were submitted by the government...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
House and the Indosat divestment
House and the Indosat divestmentFrom Koran Tempo The Indosat divestment case has drawn public attention and it remains to be seen how it will end. And now there is another case: The simultaneous hikes of fuel prices, electricity rates and telephone tariffs.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
[b]U.S. Dollar Rates Jan. 20
U.S. Dollar Rates Jan. 20 Latest %Chg Yen 118.24-29 +0.25 Euro* 1.0651-54 -0.04 Sterling* 1.6069-72 -0.32 Swiss franc 1.3704-09 +0.29 Canadian dollar 1.5353-63 +0.04 Australian dollar* 0.5893-98 -0.36 New Zealand dollar* 0.5501-06 -0.34 Deutsche mark 2.2150-75 0.00 Czech koruna 29.389-45 -0.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
CGI delegates: Save Aceh's forests!
CGI delegates: Save Aceh's forests! Thousands of letters from all over the world have arrived on my desk. Petitions opposing the construction of the Ladia Galaska Road network through the last tropical rain forest in Aceh province are approaching the one million mark.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Controversial Manulife judges exonerated
Controversial Manulife judges exoneratedFabiola Desy Unidjaja The Jakarta Post JakartaOnce again the Indonesian judiciary would appear to have shot itself in the foot with the Supreme Court finding the three judges who declared Canadian-based insurance company Manulife bankrupt innocent of all the...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Oil ticks higher as U.S. says time short for Iraq
Oil ticks higher as U.S. says time short for IraqReuters, London Oil prices ticked higher on Monday as top U.N. weapons inspectors spent a second day in Iraq and the United States said time was running out for Baghdad to prove compliance with disarmament resolutions.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
RI leaders warn U.S. not to attack Iraq
RI leaders warn U.S. not to attack Iraqor'U.S. must not fight Iraq as it will cause chaos in RI'Fabiola Desy Unidjaja The Jakarta Post JakartaNoted Muslim leaders, scholars and activists warned the United States on Saturday against attacking Iraq, saying that a war against Baghdad would only...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
JP/13/Thai
JP/13/ThaiThais seize Indonesian ship smuggling oil from Singapore = Thai customs authorities seized an Indonesian freighter and arrested its captain on charges of oil smuggling, officials said Monday in Bangkok.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
W. Sumatra regency on edge following deadly clashes
W. Sumatra regency on edge following deadly clashesKasparman, The Jakarta Post, Padang, West Sumatra The situation remained tense in Pasaman regency, West Sumatra, on Monday, six days after a clash between two villages there left five people dead and six others seriously injured.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
City Council talks money in Puncak
City Council talks money in PuncakAhmad Junaidi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta City councillors and officials start to discuss the 2003 city budget, which amounts to Rp 11.05 trillion (US$1.23 billion), on Tuesday amid public criticism of their poor performance and of the huge renumeration packages...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
* Headlines: Policeman gets 3 years for rights crimes2
* Headlines: Policeman gets 3 years for rights crimes2 * National:Controversial Manulife judges exonerated4 * Archipelago: Amin sworn in as governor of S. Sulawesi5 * Opinion: Indonesian children need counseling 6 * City: Lovers bicycle around the world 8 * Sports: Els makes it two straight wins9 *...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
1. Islam: 25x 1 line
1. Islam: 25x 1 lineWest, Muslims told to forget past 2. Manulife: 35 x 1 lineControversial Manulife judges exonerated3. Leprosy: 40 x 1 lineLeprosy on the rise in 111 regencies
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Legislators uninterested in water bill
Legislators uninterested in water billThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta Many consider the water resource bill an important bill but that is not apparently the case for legislators who will deliberate upon it at the House of Representatives.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
`She's an incompetent leader'
`She's an incompetent leader' With the country still mired in an economic crisis, President Megawati Soekarnoputri has called on people to live modestly and to tighten their belts. Of course, many people found it hard to take the President seriously considering her own lifestyle, which few of her...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Policeman gets 3 years for rights crimes
Policeman gets 3 years for rights crimesMoch. N. Kurniawan, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Former Dili police chief Lt. Col. Hulman Gultom was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday by a human rights court for crimes against humanity in East Timor in 1999.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Hope for national leaders
Hope for national leadersFrom Bisnis IndonesiaMany circles of society have staged demonstrations against increases in fuel prices, electricity tariffs and telephone rates, apparently with the same goal of rejecting the hikes.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Lovers bicycle around the world
Lovers bicycle around the world Laetitia van der Elst and Frederic Duprat, who are traveling around the world by bike, pose with Indonesia's Usmadi, who is journeying across the archipelago by bike, near Cirebon, West Java.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Susilo grilled over asset declaration
Susilo grilled over asset declaration JAKARTA: Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was questioned on Monday by the Public Servants' Wealth Audit Commission (KPKPN) over the comprehensiveness of his asset declaration to the commission.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Govt cuts fuel prices after weeks of protests
Govt cuts fuel prices after weeks of protestsThe Jakarta Post JakartaThe government announced on Monday a reduction in fuel prices and discounts for certain electricity users following weeks of nationwide protests over the recent fuel and utility price hikes.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Present coalition
Present coalition still going strong In the political scene, it is virtually impossible for the solid coalition of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-Perjuangan), the faction of the Functional Group (Golkar) behind Akbar Tandjung and the United Development Party (PPP) to lose the 2004...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
West, Muslims told to forget past
West, Muslims told to forget pastBerni K. Moestafa, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta With the war on terror risking putting a wedge between the Western and Islamic worlds, scholar and former foreign minister Alwi Shihab said both sides must let go of pasts dating back to the Middle Ages, as it was there...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
House and the Indosat divestment
House and the Indosat divestmentFrom Koran Tempo The Indosat divestment case has drawn public attention and it remains to be seen how it will end. And now there is another case: The simultaneous hikes of fuel prices, electricity rates and telephone tariffs.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
CP Open Biennale commences new art initiative
CP Open Biennale commences new art initiativeCarla Bianpoen, Contributor, Jakarta The CP Foundation through its chairperson Tjianan Djie and curator Jim Supangkat announced on Jan. 15 its upcoming CP Open Biennale in a press conference and discussion with Jakarta artists at the National Gallery...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Doubts remain about ASEAN's resolve to fight terrorism
Doubts remain about ASEAN's resolve to fight terrorismFabiola Desy Unidjaja and Zakki Hakim, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Police chiefs from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) started an antiterrorism workshop here on Monday amid serious doubts over the region's resolve to crack down...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
NGOs criticize plans to amend forestry law
NGOs criticize plans to amend forestry lawThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta Several non-governmental organizations have criticized plans by legislators in the House of Representatives to amend Law No. 41/1999 on forestry affairs.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
American protesters urge Bush to drop war plan
American protesters urge Bush to drop war planHarry Bhaskara, The Jakarta Post, San Francisco, California As the world holds its breath over the possibility of war between the U.S. and Iraq only weeks from now, antiwar activists around the world are intensifying their campaigns.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
New province to
New province to solve Papua issueFrom Media Indonesia People in the region of Irian Jaya, now called Papua, are still lagging behind in their standard of living, while the political movement to secede from the Republic of Indonesia is escalating.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Three killed in truck accident
Three killed in truck accident BOGOR: Three people died instantly, while six others were seriously injured after a truck overturned on Jl. Raya Gunung Sindur in Bogor early on Sunday morning.The fatalities were Darmawan, 30, Hadi, 20, and Seto, 25.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Young Susanto leads national chess competition
Young Susanto leads national chess competitionMusthofid, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Sixteen-year-old Susanto Megaranto is assured of becoming the leader of the national chess league after the competition completed six of its planned eight legs at the weekend.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Controversial Manulife judges exonerated
Controversial Manulife judges exoneratedFabiola Desy Unidjaja, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Once again the Indonesian judiciary would appear to have shot itself in the foot with the Supreme Court finding the three judges who declared Canadian-based insurance company Manulife bankrupt innocent of all...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
New province to
New province to solve Papua issueFrom Media Indonesia People in the region of Irian Jaya, now called Papua, are still lagging behind in their standard of living, while the political movement to secede from the Republic of Indonesia is escalating.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
1. FIRE: 50 pt, 5 cols, 1 x 35
1. FIRE: 50 pt, 5 cols, 1 x 35Fires raze homes, four killed 2. CUTLINE: 28 pt, 3 cols, 1 x 30Lovers bicycle around the world3. ROAD: 28 pt, 2 cols, 2 x 22Residents protest road damage in Tangerang4. JITF: 28 pt, 3 cols, 1 x 30City will buy Japan's JITF shares 5.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Govt finally bows to public pressure and cuts fuel prices
Govt finally bows to public pressure and cuts fuel pricesThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta The government announced on Monday a reduction in fuel prices and discounts for certain electricity users following weeks of nationwide protests over the recent fuel and utility price hikes.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
CEO SUITE: Viewing matters from clients' perspective is key to
CEO SUITE: Viewing matters from clients' perspective is key to success While almost all providers of serviced offices claim that they work on this principle in serving their clients, one visit to CEO Suite's fully serviced offices, located at the GKBI and JSX buildings, will instantly reveal the...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Thais seize RI ship smuggling oil
Thais seize RI ship smuggling oil Thai customs authorities seized an Indonesian freighter and arrested its captain on charges of oil smuggling, officials said on Monday in Bangkok.Indonesian citizen Totok Suprapto, 40, was arrested late on Sunday night as his ship, the MV Pelangi Frontier, was off-...
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Police name two more suspects in Bali bombings
Police name two more suspects in Bali bombingsThe Jakarta Post, Jakarta/Bali The police have named two more suspects in the Oct. 12 Bali blasts, though of all the suspects named so far two are assumed to have died in the attack.Chief investigator Insp. Gen.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
[b]U.S. Dollar Rates Jan. 20
U.S. Dollar Rates Jan. 20 Latest %Chg Yen 118.24-29 +0.25 Euro* 1.0651-54 -0.04 Sterling* 1.6069-72 -0.32 Swiss franc 1.3704-09 +0.29 Canadian dollar 1.5353-63 +0.04 Australian dollar* 0.5893-98 -0.36 New Zealand dollar* 0.5501-06 -0.34 Deutsche mark 2.2150-75 0.00 Czech koruna 29.389-45 -0.
Tue, 21 Jan 2003
Leprosy on the rise in 111 regencies countrywide
Leprosy on the rise in 111 regencies countrywideDebbie A. Lubis, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The public's belief that leprosy is incurable, their ignorance of the medical treatment's available and their prejudices against the sufferers are three major contributors to a rise in the number of leprosy...